{"id":3400,"date":"2011-10-07T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2011-10-07T21:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:15:27","slug":"ada-lovelace-day-little-movie-of-seven-women-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/ada-lovelace-day-little-movie-of-seven-women-in-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace Day – Little movie of seven women in tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 7 2011 is Ada Lovelace Day<\/a> – a day of blogging that celebrates women in engineering, science, technology and mathematics.<\/p>\n

(If you think that is a bit odd, – yes, the date was in March in previous years.)<\/p>\n

In 2010 I blogged about the wonderful Bess Sadler <\/a>who created the Open Source Discovery Layer, Blacklight<\/a> – but even more importantly is firmly committed to Open Source as a social justice issue.<\/p>\n

Today I was sitting in a session at THATcamp Canberra bootcamp<\/a>, all about using the Aus-e-Lit’s LORE Firefox Plugin.<\/a> In a role reversal, the person contributing the humanities subject knowledge to the project was Roger Osborne<\/a>, while the technologist who coded the project was a younger woman, Anna Gerber<\/a>. I thought about interviewing Anna (and still would be interested), but then I looked around the room and thought “this event is FULL of women. If they are here, they cannot deny that they are women in tech. I could talk to them. I wonder if they identify as women in tech?”.<\/p>\n

So – during the break I found six generous women who agreed to give a quick summary of what they do in tech. I explained to them that I have a lot of women in my introductory technology unit at Curtin University<\/a>, who may not think of themselves as techie…. but if they listened they may realise that you do not need to know 20 different coding languages to be a woman in tech. Thanks very much for your time Liz, Suse, Janet, Abigail, Cath and Nileshni.<\/p>\n